Anne Botticelli (former associate superintendent) and Mark Frazier (pictured at left, former lead community superintendent) took lower-paying union positions within the district, Botticelli as director of curriculum and Frazier as director of special education.

Botticelli took a $48,179 pay cut to her current salary of $84,821; Frazier's $37,778 pay cut took him down to $98,222.

Aubrey Lloyd became athletic director, rather than executive director of athletics -- a $36,003 pay cut, to $78,997.

(Under former Superintendent James Williams, Mike Mogavero became athletic director after he was removed as principal at Riverside High School, per federal rules regarding school turnarounds. Williams waited to move Mogavero until mid-way into that school year, when there were no principal positions open -- so Williams had moved Lloyd up to an exempt position and moved Mogavero into that newly created central office vacancy. This school year, Mogavero became principal of The Academy, the district's alternative high school. At that point, Dixon eliminated the exempt position that had been Lloyd's, and moved him back as athletic director.)

Under Williams, Cala, along with Comerford, seemed often to be within a few paces of the superintendent, accompanying him to ribbon-cuttings, meetings and any other engagements that came up -- and, often, keeping the media away. Since Dixon took over, Cala has adopted a decidedly less confrontational, more collaborative approach.